Thomas COOPER

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Service Numbers:	2222, R2222
Enlisted:	28 May 1915, Enlisted at Claremont, Tasmania
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	12th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 1887
Home Town:	Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Garden City, Victoria, Australia, October 1953, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Garden of Remembrance 1, Section 26, Niche 139. Cremation service held on 26 October 1953
Memorials:

28 May 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2222, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Claremont, Tasmania
26 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 2222, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Fremantle
26 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 2222, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: ''
17 Sep 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2222, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Shrapnel wound to the chest
8 Aug 1916:	Embarked Private, R2222, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Hobart
8 Aug 1916:	Involvement Private, R2222, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
20 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2222, 12th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit

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Son of Edward Cooper and Elizabeth Cooper of Hobart, Tasmania

Husband of Ruth Isobel Cooper of Cascade Road, Hobart, Tasmania. Father of Thomas Edward Cooper, Doris Isobel Cooper and Alice Cooper

Commenced return to Australia on 12 May 1919 aboard HT Soudan disembarking on the 29 June 1919

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal